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It’s not just in France that teachers are depressed. Budget cuts, the vocations crisis and the guerrilla war between the public and the private sector already formed the framework of the delightful sitcom Abbott Elementary (also on Disney+). English Teacher for its part, invests high school in the form of a more political and mature fiction, which questions the adaptability of the school to the increasingly complex demands of its students.
From this flammable material, the actor Brian Jordan Alvarez, discovered thanks to videos on social networks, nevertheless draws a spicy comedy, written and performed with accuracy by himself and a handful of convincing actors as disillusioned teachers, but not completely discouraged.
Every morning, to energetic pop from the 1980s, Evan, a young teacher in a high school in the suburbs of Austin – a Democratic stronghold in the middle of a fiercely Republican state – prepares for his work day like one would train. for a boxing match, without ever knowing in advance what fight will take place between extremely sensitive students, resistant to the slightest difficulty but capable of the best (witness the enthusiasm with which the football team prepares a show of drag queens), and their teachers, equally confused by the cultural war that pits teachers against students, teachers against parents, teachers against the school bureaucracy.
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